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Paul classified Matthew and/or Luke as scripture in 1 Timothy 5:18 when he
wrote "For the scripture saith...The labourer is worthy of his reward"
since this statement is only found in Luke 10:7 and a very similar statement
is in Matthew 10:10.

Paul claimed to be a giver of the word of God.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13)

Paul claimed his epistles to the Corinthians were God's commandments: 1
Corinthians 14:37 "If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual,
let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord."

2 Peter 3:15-16 "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is
salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the
wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be
understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they
do also the other

scriptures, unto their own destruction."
Peter said Paul's epistles are scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16) and thereby gave
evidence (according to Paul's criteria in 1 Corinthians 14:37) that his
(Peter's) own epistles were also scripture.

Likewise Luke gave evidence that Acts is scripture when he wrote in Acts
13:46 that Paul spoke the word of God.

Revelation 1:1-2 says the book of Revelation is the word of God.

And within the last four verses of the Bible is a warning not to "add" to
"this book". (Revelation 22:18) This implies that nothing written after
Revelation could be added to the canon.

4. Lay Christians determined the canon themselves. According to Eusebius

(264-340 A.D.), all 27 books of our New Testament were accepted as
scripture by almost all churches BEFORE the books were "officially"
canonized at the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D. Athanasius for example,